In February of this year, you and I, the American taxpayer gave the Iraqi school children a gift – laptop computers, 8080 of them. But due to a clerical error they were sent to Umn Qasr, not Babil – where they were intended to go. So they sat in a ship in Umn Qasr until they went missing. The US caught up with them when 4200 of them were auctioned off in April to an Iraqi businessman. In September the auctioned computers were recovered. The remaining 3880 have not been found. I hope we take this more seriously the next time we have a chance to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi’s.
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U.S. Gift for Iraqi Students Offers a Primer on Corruption – NYTimes.com
